Lyrics - Famine by Oconnor Sinead

OK,
I want to talk about
Ireland
Specifically
I want to talk about the "famine"
About the fact that there never really was one
There was no "famine"
See
Irish people were only
ALLOWED to eat potatoes
All of the other food
Meat fish vegetables
Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To
England while the
Irish people starved
And then on the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children
Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what
I think is still hurting me
See we're like a child that's been battered
Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's fightened
Still feels all the painful feelings
But they lose contact with the memory
And this leads to massive self-destruction
ALCOHOLISM
DRUG
ADICTIONAll desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst form
Becomes actual killing
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
An
American army regulation
Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation'
Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We lost a lot more than 10% of a nation
Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
But what finally broke us was not starvation
BUT
IT'
S
USE
IN
THE
CONTROLLING
OF
OUR
EDUCATIONSchool go on about "
Black 47"
On and on about "
The terrible "famine""
But what they don't say is in truth
There really never was one
So let's take a look shall we
The highest statistics of child abuse in the
EECAnd we say we're a
Christian country
But we've lost contact with our history
See we used to worship
God as a mother
We're sufferin from
POST
TRAUMATIC
STRESS
DISORDERLook at all our old men in the pubs
Look at all our young people on drugs
We used to worship
God as a mother
Now look at what we're doing to each other
We've even made killers of ourselves
The most child-like trusting people in the
Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books
THE
PARENT
FIGURES lied to us
I see the
Irish
As a race like a child
That got itself basned in the face
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be
FORGIVINGThere has to be
KNOWLEDGE and
UNDERSTANDING

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